The Way *I* Like Snow

Having grown up in the northeast, I'm all too familiar with the "joys" of winter - the bitter cold temperatures, scraping ice off the car windows in the morning, and, yes, snow. When we first decided to move back to California from New Jersey a few years ago, there were some things I knew I'd miss desperately from the east. Snow was definitely not one of them. And now that we've been in sunny SoCal for a while, I still don't miss it. However, not much can take my breath away more than seeing the snow-covered peaks of the San Gabriel mountains from the intersection near our house. Many days, you can't even see the mountains at all and would have no idea they were even there. But in the winter, when our temperatures drop and it rains here (yes, both of those things happen here!), it's all snow there, and we wake up to incredible views of the white mountains in the distance. It's truly a sight to behold! And I like doing just that - beholding it from a nice distance.

Our temperatures here have been unseasonably chilly (by our standards, anyway) for the last week or so, proven by the fact that even our "local" Saddleback Mountains have a little snow at the very tops!

 I'm so ready for spring and summer!